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[Simon Vasconcelos]

Drug companies join forces to combat deadliest tropical diseases

Bill Gates gets pharmaceutical giants to promise drug giveaways and unprecedented pledge to share research on new antidotes.
The heads of 13 of the world's biggest drug companies, brought together by Bill Gates, one of the world's richest men, have agreed to donate more medicines and, unprecedentedly, to work together to find new ones in a bid to end many neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that kill and maim some of the poorest people on the planet.

[Henry Cunha]

Uma sentença mal construida. Devia haver um paralelismo mais elegante.

Bill Gates leva (convence) gigantes farmaceuticos a prometer(em?) doações de remédios e a promessa inédita de compartilhar(em?) (resultados de) pesquisa sobre novos antídotos.

Veja. O verbo "gets" tem dois complementos ligados por "and": (gets what?:)

1. pharmaceutical giants to promise drug giveaways
and
2. unprecedented pledge to share research on new antidotes.

A 'promessa inédita' poderia ter sido posta como um comentário aparte, deixando os infinitivos em sequencia clara:

Bill Gates gets pharmaceutical giants to promise drug giveaways and to share research on new antidotes, an unprecedented pledge. (ou talvez)

Bill Gates gets pharmaceutical giants to promise drug giveaways as well as their unprecedented pledge to share research on new antidotes.

I just didn't like the ungainly sentence structure.